Sentence examples for mental debility from inspiring English sources

Identity talk encourages us to respect the autonomy of groups and individuals, yet extreme mental debility reflects the impairment, even negation, of autonomy.

When the court reconvened, however, the decision was unequivocal: Pistorius suffered no form of mental debility, showed no lack of criminal capacity; there was nothing to prevent his knowing the consequences of his act or distinguishing between right and wrong.

Gesturing toward a dining room of people in various stages of physical and mental debility, he said: "I feel like my mind is going, and I don't want to end up like them.

He finds, eventually, not only the immediate trigger for her current madness but also its more remote origins in the emotional disturbances of her childhood and adolescence and, more distant still, in the macho brutalities of her father and the mental debility of a dreamy, delusional grandfather.

Senility includes senescence, asthenia, and debility (WHO 2007), relating to mental infirmity and physical deterioration in the elderly.

It is a collective portrait of pain, mental illness, physical debility, and, often enough, shattered families.

This particular species is important to the ethnobotanical pharmacopoeia of the Western Cape because it is utilized for a myriad of disease symptoms such as coughs, sexual debility, mental and nervous conditions, throat inflammation, chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, influenza, stomach ache, diarrhea, and urticaria, amongst others [ 14, 15].

Salvia sp. has also been used for a long time in folk medicine as medication against fever, rheumatism, perspiration, sexual debility, and in the treatment of chronic bronchitis, as well as mental and nervous diseases [ 3].

(Zero blood pressure is a serious debility).

Too much drift, too much debility.

Jason analyzes his verbal debility compulsively.